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Vital Practices for Congregations - Episcopal Church Foundation site on Human Trafficking http://www.ecfvp.org/tools/87/human-trafficking-resources-for-congregations

March 2013 - ENS Report with links: Church-wide conversation focuses on human trafficking Presiding bishop hosts off-site UNCSW event http://episcopaldigitalnetwork.com/ens/2013/03/06/churchwide-conversation-focuses-on-human-trafficking/

PBS - Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide is a four-hour PBS prime time documentary film and national broadcast event inspired by the widely acclaimed book of the same name by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. The linked problems of sex trafficking and forced prostitution, gender-based violence, and maternal mortality - which needlessly claim one woman every 90 seconds - present to us the single most vital opportunity of our time: the opportunity to make a change. More info here: http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/half-the-sky/film/

The Rev. Becca Stevens and Thistle Farm - Becca's sermon from 2015 General Convention talks about her journey: http://episcopaldigitalnetwork.com/ens/2015/07/01/becca-stevens-preaches-at-july-1-general-convention-eucharist/ and a video from the Diocese of TX offers a peak of Becca Steven's "Love Heals" message: https://vimeo.com/91750167.
In 2015, Becca, Anika Rogers and Regina Mullins spent four days in Maine speaking about the healing and social enterprise efforts at Thistle Farm ministry in Nashville. The Diocese of Maine's Human Trafficking Ministry Group brought the women to Maine in partnership with Bates College, Lutheran partners, the Center for Wisdom's Women in Lewiston and Province 1 (Sowing Seeds Grant). Click these links to a photo album https://www.flickr.com/photos/episcopalmaine/sets/72157661344476705/.